From: Is globalization healthy: a statistical indicator analysis of the impacts of globalization on health
Positive health impacts | Negative health impacts |
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-Diffusion of knowledge and technologies, improving health services; | -Spread of infectious diseases due to increased movement of goods and people; |
-Diffusion of knowledge and technologies, improving food and water availability (e.g. irrigation technology); | -Spread of unhealthy lifestyles due to, for example, cultural globalization, global trade and marketing; |
-Improvements in health care or sanitation due to economic development; | -Brain drain in the health sector; |
-Global governance efforts, such as WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and WHO's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network; | -Health risks due to global environmental change; |
-Increased access to affordable food supplies due to free trade. | -Decreased government spending on public services due to, for example, Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs); |
 | -Inequitable access to food supplies due to asymmetries in the global market. |